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Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2019)

6.7/10 1h 28m Jan 28, 2019
Documentary

This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.

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Movie Details

Original Title Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Original Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.4

Cast

Merata Mita
Merata Mita
Self (archive footage)
Popularity: 0.3
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Hepi Mita
Self - Narrator (voice)
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="Rafer Rautjoki" class="cast-photo">
Rafer Rautjoki
Self
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Richard Rautjoki" class="cast-photo">
Richard Rautjoki
Self
Popularity: 0.3
No Photo" alt="Rhys Rautjoki" class="cast-photo">
Rhys Rautjoki
Self
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Awatea Mita" class="cast-photo">
Awatea Mita
Self
Popularity: 0.1
No Photo" alt="Eruera Mita" class="cast-photo">
Eruera Mita
Self
Popularity: 0.0
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Self
Popularity: 0.4
No Photo" alt="Jesse Wente" class="cast-photo">
Jesse Wente
Self
Popularity: 0.0
No Photo" alt="C.M. Kaliko Baker" class="cast-photo">
C.M. Kaliko Baker
Self
Popularity: 0.0
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Tammy Haili'opua Baker
Self
Popularity: 0.0
Heather Rae
Heather Rae
Self
Popularity: 0.4

Key Crew

Director Hepi Mita
Producer Chelsea Winstanley
Executive Producer Cliff Curtis
Editor Te Rurehe Paki
Writer Hepi Mita
Music Tama Waipara

Production

New Zealand Film Commission
NZ
Te Māngai Pāho

Videos & Trailers

MERATA | Theatrical Trailer
MERATA | Theatrical Trailer
Trailer
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Official Trailer
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen | Official Trailer
Trailer

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Backdrop Image
Backdrop Image

Keywords

indigenous new zealand maori portrait of a filmmaker

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Details
Release Date January 28, 2019
Runtime 1h 28m
Language EN
Status Released
Popularity 0.4
Links
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